The Hitman She Met on Tinder Was a Confidential Informant

Jaclyn Diiorio, 28, of New Jersey, faces federal charges over an alleged plot to have her former boyfriend, a Philadelphia police officer, and his daughter murdered.

The federal indictment follows her arrest in 2025 on state charges that included two counts of first-degree attempted murder. She intends to plead not guilty, according to her attorney Robert Gamburg, and will appear at a federal detention hearing.

What prosecutors allege

The Camden County Prosecutor's Office learned in April 2025 that Diiorio allegedly wanted her 53-year-old former partner and his 19-year-old daughter dead.

She is accused of offering a man 12,000 dollars to kill them both. According to prosecutors she met him on Tinder.

The man was a confidential informant working with law enforcement.

On April 4, 2025, prosecutors say, she met him in Gloucester Township and handed over 500 dollars in cash as a down payment.

She used a facility of interstate commerce, that is, a cellular phone, with intent that the murders be committed

The charge, and why it is federal

The federal indictment, announced on Wednesday, September 9 by the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, charges Diiorio with two counts of using interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder-for-hire.

The wording of the allegation explains the jurisdiction.

"The indictment alleges that, from about March 30, 2025, to about April 5, 2025, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey, Diiorio used and caused another to use a facility of interstate commerce, that is, a cellular phone, with intent that the murders of Person 1 and Person 2 be committed, in exchange for money," prosecutors said.

The facility of interstate commerce is a mobile phone. That is what converts a state matter into a federal one, and it is the statute under which most murder-for-hire cases are now brought, because almost nobody arranges anything without a phone.

With the Justice Department involved, Camden County is no longer pursuing its state case.

How they knew each other

The officer was previously Diiorio's client. She had been his hairdresser before the two began a relationship.

That detail matters only in establishing the sequence: a professional relationship, then a personal one, then, according to prosecutors, an attempt to end his life and his daughter's.

Why the year matters

The gap between the arrest and the federal indictment is more than a year, and that is not unusual in cases of this type.

A state prosecution can move on the evidence gathered locally. A federal one requires the government to establish the interstate element, assemble the communications record and decide whether the case belongs in a US Attorney's office at all. That process takes months, and it typically runs alongside the state case rather than replacing it until the decision is made.

When the federal charge arrives, the state charge usually falls away, which is what has happened here. The exposure changes with it, since federal sentencing for murder-for-hire is considerably more severe than most state attempt statutes.

What the case turns on

Very little of the factual sequence appears to be in dispute in the way these cases usually are, because the person she allegedly hired was working with investigators from the start.

That produces an evidentiary position prosecutors rarely enjoy. The meetings, the payment and the communications were, on the government's account, happening in front of law enforcement as they occurred.

What remains is the question of intent, and the timeline in the indictment is narrow: six days at the end of March and the start of April 2025, during which prosecutors say a phone was used with the intention that two people be killed for money.

Diiorio has not entered a plea. Her lawyer says it will be not guilty.